Thursday, April 12, 2007

We Were Here

-Detail of billboards-


“We Were Here” was a billboarding project that used existing advertising space as a surface upon which to tell contested histories.

In an effort to reclaim some of that advertising space back to Troy and Troy issues two billboards where put up, one of Harriet Tubman and a second of Henry Highland Garnet. Each billboard featured head shot of one of them and corresponding quote. The billboards were put up on Fourth Street in South Troy. They were up for a little over a month after which the entire billboard structure was removed and the space was left advertising free.


-Installation-


-Harriet Tubman billboard-

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